December 2009

If you are snowed in and very happily exhausted after a few hours of cross-country skiing or sledding, you may want to settle into just a little bit of kitchen time to start preparing for Christmas week.

Our winter Cook the Book pick is Monica Bhide’s Indian cookbook Modern Spice. We decided to feature this book as the weather turns cold and the holidays approach because we wanted to add a bit of heat and flavor to our meals both during the week and for entertaining. We are not suggesting that you […]

Monica Bhide’s recipe from her book Modern Spice: Inspired Indian Flavors for the Contemporary Kitchen). Serves 6 “This dish is not only tasty (of course!) but has a very striking presentation. I have served it at many dinner parties just after guests have announced, “I could not eat another bite of anything. I am so […]

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Loulies is our home kitchen journal where we share seasonal recipes and links to things we like.

We also have a budding vegetarian restaurant called Chaia featuring our homemade corn tacos served with local ingredients. Chaia has been operating weekly at FreshFarm markets in Washington, DC. We will be opening our first shop in 2015!

We would like to thank Tuscarora Organic Growers for providing us with such beautiful and delicious in-season produce to cook with each week. Our first shop - with an expanded menu - will open in Georgetown in 2015!